On masks, face shields, and vaccines: humans becoming extraterrestrials

The image reminds me of extra-terrestrial aliens in space suits walking in an alien world that has some kind of toxic atmosphere.   These are humans.   This is no longer their planet.   They are temporarily stranded on this alien world and hope that science will bring in their rescue ships, probably in the form of some kind of consciousness upload into an Internet cloud.

Intelligent Design may be by a Villain

Originally posted on Hypothesis Discovery:
Intelligent design is a counter claim against Darwin evolution of unsupervised random variation selected through natural survival at the species level.   The intelligent design claim results from matching currently observed design processes (primarily from human designers) with the observed intricate machines found in biology.   After the introduction of this proposal,…

Acknowledging Intelligence: Photographer vs Elk

In my recent post on eagerness to see a different point of view, I described my eagerness to observe animals as something more like humans in terms of intelligence. Recently, I saw this video about a photographer being confronted up and personal by an elk.    I was led to the video from various expectations…

Dark Data and Starling Murmuration

I am fascinated in the large murmurations of starlings.  They get my attention whenever I see them outdoors and it is hard to get bored watching uploaded videos of them. I was pretty young when I first saw them and that would have been in nature since Internet wasn’t around then and videos of them…